{"id":16357,"date":"2012-07-17T15:50:19","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T19:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=16357"},"modified":"2012-07-17T15:50:19","modified_gmt":"2012-07-17T19:50:19","slug":"rising-star-award-speech-better-late-than-never","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/rising-star-award-speech-better-late-than-never\/","title":{"rendered":"Rising Star Award Speech, Better Late Than Never"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gorgeous <a href=\"http:\/\/taffetadarlings.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">blogger<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/stacylomman.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">designer<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/taffetadarlings.blogspot.com\/2012\/01\/wwd-announces-fgis-rising-star.html\" target=\"_blank\">Fashion Group International Rising Star Award finalist<\/a> Stacy Lomman just stumbled across this video of me accepting my <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/im-a-fashion-group-international-rising-star-award-winner\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rising Star Award for jewelry in January<\/a>. It was strange for me to watch it because I&#8217;ve had a lifelong fear of any type of public speaking that I&#8217;ve only begun to get over in the past three years or so. 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